Vaporizing and air-heating attachment for bath-cabinets.



B. J. DIBBLE.

vAPoRIzING AND AIH HHATTNG ATTACHMENT HUH BATH GABTNHTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5, 1911.

1,16,878. v Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

WITNESSES INVENTH BVM.

TOHNEYS NETE BERT J. DIBBLE, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

VAPORIZING- .AND AIR-HEATING ATTACHMENT FOR. BATH-CABINETS.

Application tiled July 5, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

Serial No. 636,906.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BERT J. DIBBLn, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado,have invented an Improved Vaporizing and Air-Heating Attachment forBath-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed as an attachment for cabinets used foradministering vapor baths, and the apparatus is in thc nature of aheater adapted for generating steam or medicated vapors and directingthem into the cabinet. The attachment is portable and, in practice, issuspended be neath the cabinet.

The invention is fully described hereinafter, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is in part an elevation and inpart a vertical section of my improved apparatus applied to andsuspended from a bath cabinet. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on theline 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the heating plate or tableconstituting a part of the attachment.

As before intimated, my invention is used as an attachment of a bathcabinet or a boxe like inclosure which is suitably constructed toreceive the body of a person and allow the patient to sit or reclinewhile being eX- posed to radiated heat or the action of steam or hot airfor sanitary or therapeutic purposes.

In the drawing, m indicates a part of the bottom of such a cabinet andmy improved attachment is shown suspended from the base portion of aframe whereon the cabinet proper is detachably supported. That is tosay, in Figs. 1 and 2 there are certain posts 1 connected by horizontalrods 2 from which my improved vaporizing attachment is suspended bymeans of rods 3 whose upper ends engage the wires 2, their lower endsbeing also attached to the horizontal heating plate i constituting thebase of my attachment. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the plate 4 isprovided with two openings in which the burners are properly arranged.On said plate are supported the vapor generator 10 and the air heater 11which I employ. The generator 10 is a cylindrical vessel provided with acover 10a from which a vertical pipe 12 extends upward through thebottom of the bath cabinet w. The receptacle 10 is provided with ahandle for convenience in manipulation. It is connected by a curved pipe15 with the other and smaller drum 11 and the latter is in turn providedwith a similar laterally eX- tended pipe 16 which serves for the intro-`duction of air.

A due quantity of water being placed in the receptacle 10 and heatapplied, steam will be generated and pass up through the pipe 12 intothe bath cabinet.

Any suitable subst-ance which may be properly employed for producing amedicated vapor may be placed in the receptacle 10, and thus a medicatedvapor will be discharged into the bath cabinet. The air entering thedrum 11 through the pipe 16 and becoming heated therein passes throughthe upper pipe 15 into the top portion of the vaporizer 10 and thereinmingles with the steam or medicated vapor and passes on therewith intothe bath cabinet. In brief, it will be understood that upon lighting theburners of the heating apparatus proper, both the receptacle 12 and thedrum 16 will be heated and that thereby the vapor generated in one,whether pure steam or medicated vapor, will be discharged into thecabi-- net along with an admixture of hot air in Such quantity as may berequired.

It is apparent that both the receptacle 10 and air drum 11 may be heatedsimultaneously, or either may be heated alone according to conditions.

The cabinet is provided with a collar where the pipe 12 passestherethrough, for the purpose of preventing water from escaping at thatpoint.

What I claim is 1. The improved attachment for bath cabinets, comprisinga vaporizer having a pipe extending into the cabinet, an air-heatingdrum, and a pipe connecting it with the vaporizer and provided with alateral air inlet, and a heating apparatus proper on which saidreceptacle and drum are supported, substantially as described.

2. The improved attachment for the purpose specified, comprising avaporizer proper having a pipe for conducting vapors into a bathcabinet, an air-heating drum and a pipe connecting it with thevaporizer, a plate provided with heating devices proper whereon thevaporizer and drum are supported, and means for suspending the apparatusbeneath the cabinet, substantially as described.

3. rIhe combination with a bath cabinet and a frame for supporting thesame, of a detachable portable vaporizing and heating attachmentcomprising a vaporizer proper having a pipe extending into the cabinet,an air-heater and drum and a pipe connecting it with the vaporizer, saiddrum having a lateral pipe for introduction of air7 a plate providedwith openings and burners arranged therein beneath the vaporizer andair-drum respectively, and means for suspending the entire vaporizingand heating attachment from the frame of the cabinet, substantially asdescribed.

4f. The improved heating attachment, comprising a vaporizer, an airheating drum, a pipe connecting the same at the top, aflateral pipeextending from the lower portion of the drum for inlet of air, burnersfor heating the vaporizer and drum, and means for supporting thevaporizer and drum, substantially as describe In testimony whereof Iaiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BERT J. DIBBLE. itnesses RENA A. VVOLZ, Jol-IN PAUL LEE.

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